Fredenstein Artistic Mic Pre Plus

Very happy with my purchase, so far used it on Bass & Vocals, there is a massive amount of level up to +65 dB and a great range of features to cover Dynamic mics, Condensers & Ribbons.
It gives weight to Bass and a warmth to vocals when using the Colour control.
There is a 20dB Attenuator to allow line level signals to pass through the preamp and a low impedance switch which covers 1.5k to 300 ohms, the Di Input offers Balanced or unbalanced input with an input impedance of greater than 2M ohms, its a supper value Pre Amp for the money really loving it !

A Nice sounding preamp that you can alter its sound with the dedicated harmonics knob.

I first used this pre-amp on vocals with an NTK Tube mic and wow! With a small amount of gain and a small amount of the colour introduced it sounded like it was going through a very high end desk. It gave depth and a very silky smooth top end.

I think it's a big advantage that you can insert it by changing the op-amp. The op-amp interior also has a fairly high quality and transparent sound. If you turn the color knob, Harmonics is added and it protrudes a little more.

Purchased with the idea of sampling Fredenstein gear. It sat in a Radial Cube with a SSL six and Cranborne Camden.

I've liked it enough to call it a keeper, used it 4 times, a little over a year and a half passed. Tried using it today, it's defective and send scratchy noises at very high level in my interface. Swapped it to another rack, and swapped cables. It still makes noise, even without anything hooked-up to it.

I'm not touching any Fredenstein products ever again.